When MTV launched in 1981, it introduced viewers to a new generation of artists—including an overlooked new wave classic.

MTV changed music forever. After the advent of the network, artists had to think about the visual aspect of their craft—something that seems to supersede all else these days. While we may have taken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, the ...

MTV's music-only channels all but went dark on New Year's Eve in 2025. The network did a fitting send-off for seven of its ...

MTV helped bring music videos to the masses. Artists rose to the occasion, creating timeless videos for the network to play on repeat. While we’d shy away from crowning one band as the greatest music ...

MTV flipped a switch on August 1, 1981, and gave music a face. Labels started treating videos like serious investments, and artists began competing for airtime. As viewers kept the channel on, ...

You can't think of the landscape of music and pop culture in the 80s and 90s specifically without thinking of MTV in some form. First launched in 1981, it became the exclusive home to music videos on ...

The exhaustive 'Reddit 'MTV Rewind' site corrals 33,000 music videos and classic commercials following shutdown of overseas ...

Several MTV music channels, including MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live, officially stopped broadcasting on ...